Romans 10:10: For with the heart man bel ieveth unto righteous ness, and with the mouth confes sion is made unto salvation.

Mark 11:23: For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have what so ever he saith.

Believing plus confessing equals activated faith.

Notice the latter part of Romans 10:10…with the mouth confession is made unto…the text says that with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. But that’s not only true concerning salvation, it is true concerning anything else you receive from God.

Everything we receive from God comes the same way – through faith. For example, it’s with the heart that man believes when it comes to receiving healing, and it’s with the mouth confession is made unto healing.

It’s with the heart man believes when it comes to the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and it’s with the mouth that confession

is made unto this Pentecostal experience.

Whatever it is you receive from God, it is done the same way through faith. Faith is activated by believing with your heart and confessing with your mouth.

Notice the text in Mark 11:23: For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith.

Notice in this verse Jesus mentioned ‘believing’ one time but mentions ‘saying’ three times. Folks aren’t primarily missing it in the

part, they’re missing it in the saying part. You have to say with your mouth what you believe in your heart if the word is going to work for you.

The bible doesn’t teach that if you just believe in your heart you’ll get an answer, but it does teach that if you believe with your heart and say what you believe with your mouth whatever you want from God’s word shall come to pass in your life.

Romans 10:8-10 shows us this faith principal: But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thine heart, that is, the word of faith which we preach; That if thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Notice in verse 8 that the word of faith must be in your mouth, as well as in your heart for faith to work for you. If the word is only in your heart, it won’t work. But when faith is in both your heart and your mouth, thank God, your faith will work.

I want to discuss the value of right thinking and right believing, and right confessing. What you think and what you believe will affect what you say.

If your thinking is right, your believing will be right, because what you meditate on will eventually get down into your heart. And you will begin to believe what you have been meditating on.

If your believing is right, then your confessing will be right. But if any one of these three is wrong – your thinking, believing, or your confessing – then all three of them will be wrong. God has given us His word to get our thinking straightened out. And when we think in line with God’s word, our believing will be right. When we are believing right, then what we say with our mouths will be right.

I’m sure of this one thing, that very few Christians have actually realized and recognized the place that confessing holds in the scheme of things. It’s to be regretted that whenever you use the word confession folks automatically think of confessing sins, weaknesses and failures. That’s the negative side of confession, but there is a positive side. And the Bible has more to say about the positive side than it does the negative side.